Baybayin Archives

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Baybayin Keyboard on Android

A keyboard application for Android phones include baybayin script

Screenshot 1 (the baybayin keyboard)

Screenshot 2


Screenshot 3 (showing the settings/language selection	)

Font used: Baybayin Modern Print Font by Nordenx.

A new update was made available include the change of baybayin font use. The latest update now feature the font Tagalog Doctrina by Paul Morrow which is based on the typeface used in one of the very first book printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Cristiana of 1593 which is the earliest documented form of the Baybayin script.

Screenshot 4 (the baybayin keyboard)

Screenshot 5 (showing the Tagalog Doctrina font)

Screenshot 6 (showing the settings/language selection)

Now available for download on Google play: MultiLing Keyboard and MyAlpha

Note: Most Android phones are not supported by the Unicode range of the baybayin so you can only see boxes in most applications like built-in browser, Facebook, Messenger, and messaging. It can only appear properly in MyAlpha. It is advisable that you need to type in MyAlpha and copy-paste it in your browser, messenger etc.

MultiLing Keyboard

MyAlpha

*Screenshot from Xperia Mini

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Baybayin on the Market

Natasha launched the Robinhood Makabayan Series of colognes and Robin Padilla is the main endorser. The three colognes to choose from with baybayin script are Maginoo (ᜋᜄᜒᜈᜓᜂ), Makisig (ᜋᜃᜒᜐᜒᜄ᜔) and Matipuno (ᜋᜆᜒᜉᜓᜈᜓ).

For more details go to Natasha's Robinhood Fragrance catalogue

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Baybayin on the New PDA Seal

The new Philippine Dental Association (PDA) seal include the baybayin "DA" (ᜇ) although the article on the PDA site describes it as a Tagalog letter not generalizing it as the same in all Philippine Abugida scripts. Stating further the term "Alibata" and "Baybayin" to be the same which is a common error.

Read more about the PDA Seal below.

The PDA Seal

Friday, June 8, 2012

Going To The Classic: Kur-itan Regular Font

Kur-itan Regular Font

Kur-itan Regular Font based on Lopez typeface for the Ilocan script now with special character ‘Ra’ adopted from Bicol Mintz to supplement the distinct Ilocan language which uses R entirely in its words. Together with non-circular C-shape ‘kur-it’ (kudlit), and ‘X’ virama for vowel cancellation.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Baybayin Mayat Font

Baybayin Mayat Font, 'mayat' means 'nice' in Ilocan language. With special 'Ra' character based on Bicol Mintz.

©2011 by rapcom creations

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Baybayin Evolutionary Modifications

The growing number of practitioners and enthusiasts of baybayin which now expanded its uses and transcend the boundaries of its tradition to blend with the outside world leads to the proposed modification and expansion of baybayin characters. Some had created their own new baybayin glyphs to match the Latin letters C, F, J, Q, X, V, Z and even the Ñ. The ‘Ra’ character has variations, the Bicol Mintz and the recent one developed by Norman Delos Santos for his fonts. As of this time, there are no settled standard new baybayin characters yet. On the other hand, this prompted me to do my own little experiment. Using the Baybayin Lopez truetype font (by Paul Morrow), I merged the two baybayin characters and created a new one based on the fuse of two glyphs. The ‘Ja’ character was already proposed by Kendrick Salting a year ago which seems that it agreed well with the two glyphs.

I do not recommend this as a proposal but just to show how the two characters look like when combined and evolved to a new one. My experiment did not include the letter C, V and Z since they can be transliterate either ‘Ka’/’Sa’, ‘Ba’ and ‘Sa’ depending in pronunciation. Only the letter J, F, X and Q are my focal point.